The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

Beginning in 2008 there was a mass exodus of captives for better staffed jurisdictions like Anguilla.

The city was a Republican stronghold during the Spanish Civil War, and the fall of the city on 26 January 1939 caused a mass exodus of civilians who fled to the French border.

There are still differing theories on whether there was a single exodus or several.

It was only in 1919 that the exodus of talent from the country took place, and fiction film production was reduced to practically nothing.

Mussolini went on to say that the solution to unemployment for men was the " exodus of women from the work force ".

One result was a continuous exodus from the land — to the cities, or further afield to England, Canada, America or Australia.

Its immediate consequence was a large Protestant exodus from France.

This exodus was planned over three years, in the course of which Orgetorix conspired with two noblemen from neighbouring tribes, Casticus of the Sequani and Dumnorix of the Aedui, that each should accomplish a coup d ' etat in his own country, after which the three new kings would collaborate.

Rather than preaching revolution, Jones believed that an exodus from Wales was required and that a new Welsh colony should be founded in the United States.

The reason for the exodus was probably overpopulation.

This was followed by a further exodus of Turks in 1898.

In developing countries, rural exodus is a more recent and rapid process than it was in developed ones.

On September 8, a four-mile stretch on K-10 between the Edgerton Road exit and the DeSoto interchange at former K-285 ( now Lexington Avenue ) was closed for shooting highway scenes representing a mass exodus on Interstate 70.

The situation was worsened by the country's 1. 5 million military and civilian deaths, and the subsequent exodus of 1 million refugees, including tens of thousands of professionals, intellectuals, technicians and skilled workers.

Preceding the Texas Army's eastward movement away from the Mexican Army, was the civilian exodus toward the safety of Louisiana.

In fact, Thurston resolved so many outstanding problems in foliation theory in such a short period of time that, according to Thurston, it led to a kind of exodus from the field, where advisors counselled students against going into foliation theory because Thurston was " cleaning out the subject " ( see " On Proof and Progress in Mathematics ", especially section 6 ).

The collapse of communism in Albania came later and was more chaotic than in other Eastern European countries and was marked by a mass exodus of refugees to Italy and Greece in 1991 and 1992.

Following the capture of the two towns there was an exodus of their Arab population.

Military intervention by Yugoslav security forces led by Slobodan Milošević and Serb militia within Kosovo in response to diverse operations led by the KLA prompted an exodus of Kosovar Albanians / Serbs and a refugee crisis that eventually caused NATO to intervene militarily in order to stop what was widely identified as an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing.

As the war against Israeli forces in the Sinai was underway, Israel retaliated by heavily bombing key Egyptian military and civilian infrastructure and causing a large exodus of Egyptians from the western bank of the Suez Canal, leading to a large influx of Egyptian refugees.

The result was a mass exodus of tribal members from their traditional lands and the cultural alienation of young people in the villages, who could not learn their languages or customs while employed.

However, further industrialisation was stopped by the hasty exodus of 90 percent of the ethnic Portuguese citizens during and after the independence process which was concluded on June 25, 1975.

Unfortunately, the exodus, which totaled over 275, 000 ethnic Portuguese, also led to a huge loss of professionals, productive machinery, entrepreneurs, and skilled workers.

In 1989, producer Tom Ruegger led an exodus of Hanna-Barbera staffers to restart Warner Bros.

A massacre at Bacalar, Mexico — a Mestizo stronghold about thirty miles north of Corozal Town — finally led to the exodus of thousands of Mestizos from Bacalar and the surrounding area.

Still seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity, in 1781 Elijah Craig's brother Lewis led an exodus of up to 600 people known as " The Travelling Church " ( composed of most of his congregation and many others, e. g., from Germantown ) from their prior location ( Spotsylvania, VA ) to the area of Virginia known as Kentucky ( the largest single group to so migrate ).

Liu Bei led his troops away and abandoned Fancheng, leading civilians and his followers ( including some of Liu Biao's former attendants ) on an exodus to the south.

When Liu Bei heard of Liu Cong's surrender, he led his followers ( both troops and civilians ) on an exodus southward to Xiakou, engaging Cao Cao's forces in a brief skirmish at the Battle of Changban along the way.

A brief respite in 1994 / 95 saw Thursdays finish as high as fourth in the Welsh League Division One before a further damaging exodus of quality players led to a dreadful season in 1997 / 98 when they secured only three points and conceded an astonishing 210 goals in thirty six league fixtures.

In 1886 Kuyper led an exodus from the Dutch Reformed Church.

Liu Bei abandoned Xinye and led his followers, including both his troops and civilians, on an exodus towards Xiakou.

Ovitz, Meyer, and Haber's departure led inevitably to an exodus of some of CAA's top-marquee names.

Their pacifist beliefs and desire to avoid government interference in their life led to an exodus of the majority of the group from the Russian Empire to Canada at the close of the 19th century.

He described Ross as the father of the Cherokee Nation, a Moses who " led ... his people in their exodus from the land of their nativity to a new country, and from the savage state to that of civilization.

The leadership debates eventually led to the exodus of more than half of the members of Central Commititee and most of the Kurdistan Committee in August 2004.

Since the amalgamation of New Toronto into Etobicoke in 1967 and Etobicoke into Toronto in 1997, St. Teresa has been challenged by the deindustrialisation of New Toronto which has led to an exodus of working families to newer suburbs.

Continued friction with the Soviets over political issues as well as shortages of weapons, food and clothing, led to the eventual exodus of Anders ' men – known as the Anders Army – together with a sizeable contingent of Polish civilians via the Persian Corridor into Iran, Iraq and Palestine.

Black inmates led the exodus from the smoldering cellblocks.

A steep decline in the fish population in the 1940s led to the exodus of most of the island's residents, until tourism in the 1970s brought renewed interest in Beaver.

The new clinics and the heroic efforts of physicians like Florentino Ameghino helped curb the spread of the epidemic into points north ; but, claiming over 10, 000 lives, the crisis led to the exodus of San Telmo's growing middle and upper classes into what later became Barrio Norte.

Due to a general distaste for Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland, and the North Carolina Democratic Party's ruling that no voter could vote on a " split ticket ", Butler led a mass exodus of Alliance members and followers to the Populist, or " People's Party " in 1892.

This, together with lack of investment led to an exodus of middle class residents in the 1980s and the decay of major buildings, leaving in its wake an urban slum by the 1990s.

Assaults by the Haganah on major Arab population centers like Jaffa and Haifa as well as expulsions carried out by groups like the Irgun and Lehi such as at Deir Yassin and Lydda led to the exodus of large portions of the Arab masses.